It seems I only post things here when I want something. Right now, I want you to watch this video: The 2011 Society for News Design conference will be in St. Louis; this is a promotional video for that conference. It was created by Brian Williamson, our Flash expert at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and [...]

Last month, I had the opportunity to talk to St. Louis University and Northwest Missouri State University student journalists about social media and multimedia reporting. In 1999, I was the editor of The Northwest Missourian, the weekly student paper at Northwest Missouri State University. My college newspaper adviser, Laura Widmer, recently asked “What do you [...]

Visual journalist extraordinaire Charles Apple has moved his blog to the American Copy Editor’s Society website. Apple, one of today’s greatest sources for design information and analysis, will continue his daily discussions of newspaper and media design. He’s off to a great start in his new home — he’s been a blogging fool all day. [...]

At work, I used to sit beside the deputy managing editor for news. Part of his job is dealing with the public, and he would share some of the more offbeat reader messages and correspondence. There were some real gems — cranky “observations,” random requests and notes scrawled on newspaper clippings. One of my favorites [...]

I got to do one of my favorite things on Monday: Sleuthing. A couple of weeks ago, I researched and created an interactive timeline on the ownership history of the St. Louis Rams. A man from New York found that timeline and e-mailed me last week: If you are the RAMS historian, I’ve got a [...]